In ancient times, the poor could not eat, but the river was flooded with fish and shrimp, why would they rather gnaw the bark of trees than go down the river? #历史#
In ancient times, there were often natural and man-made disasters, and the Chinese people mainly farmed, relying on the sky and the earth for food, and if drought or flood occurred, there would be no harvest in the field, resulting in famine. So in ancient times, people could not eat, why did there be a lot of fish and shrimp in the rivers, why did they not catch and eat, but preferred to eat the bark of trees to starve to death?
In fact, in addition to natural disasters, the ancients also had to deal with man-made disasters, and officials everywhere bullied and deprived the landlords of the gentry. If the drought rages for too long, ordinary people's families will not have enough food to sustain, but those rich people have long accumulated grain in warehouses, and profiteers will raise the price of rice and take the opportunity to squeeze out the people's families. Therefore, in order not to starve to death, many ordinary people prefer to leave their homes and flee everywhere.
Some people may wonder here, even if it is a flood and drought, how can there be a lot of fish and shrimp in the river, why don't hungry people go to the river to catch fish to eat, but have to work hard and run to other places to escape? After all, the ancient mountains and waters are beautiful, pollution-free, fish and shrimp are pure natural wild, the meat tastes good, and there is no need to worry about damaging the ecological environment.
This is really confusing. In fact, the promise is also very simple, the reason why most of the ancients chose to escape the famine, it is because they do not have the ability to fish, many people are born only wielding hoes to farm, some scholars will only read sage books every day, shake their heads and chant poetry, and have no hands-on ability at all, let alone catch fish to feed themselves.
However, this problem of not being able to fish applies only to the inhabitants of the plains, who spend most of their time in the vast plains, rarely offshore or rivers and mountains.
On weekdays, there is no other way but to farm, and his habitual thinking makes him only think that crops are the best God-given staple food, even if the field is confiscated, he will only go to find other crops or wild vegetables and fruits to fill his stomach, then after these wild vegetables and fruits are eaten by people, all that remains is the bark to gnaw. Compared with the residents and mountain people who rely on water, they have a strong ability to survive, and in the event of drought without rice, residents close to the rivers and seas will go to the water to catch fish to eat, which is their ability to catch fish for generations, and they are comfortable catching fish and shrimp. Mountain people, on the other hand, can go into the mountains to hunt, catch hares, mountain pigs, deer, wolves and other animals to eat.
In the same way, poor people who depend on the water can eat fish and shrimp, and it is difficult to starve them to death. The mountain people who live at the foot of the mountain rely on hunting, and they can fill their stomachs in the year of famine. The worst left are the poor on the plains.
If they encounter a famine, their environment will be even worse, they will not rely on shops in front of the village, and occasionally a river passes through their hometown, and they do not know how to catch when they see groups of fish and shrimp, and the plains are wide, and there are few wild beasts and animals, let alone hunting for meat.
While the rich closed their doors and secretly ate meat at home, the hungry poor could only dig wild vegetables and pick wild fruits to eat, and when the plants were eaten, the rest was to gnaw the bark.
Therefore, there are many factors in the fact that the poor who are hungry cannot eat and can only eat the bark of trees. If it is a drought, the river has long dried up, there are no fish and shrimp to survive, if it encounters a flood, the river is flooded with raging floods, the momentum is fierce, even if there are fish and shrimp flooding, the ancients dare not easily go down the river to catch, even skilled fishermen, in the face of the monstrous flood, do not dare to joke with their lives.
